Top H-1B Visa Sponsors: Research Fellow, 2025 H-1B Visa Report by Job Title

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Top H-1B Sponsors By Job Title: Research Fellow

Rank	H1B Visa Sponsor	Number of LCA ^*	Average Salary
1	National Institutes Of Health/Hhs	164	$96,732
2	The Children's Hospital	80	$80,905
3	The General Hospital	71	$70,313
4	Mayo Clinic Rochester	53	$61,708
5	Harvard University	46	$74,632
6	Danafarber Cancer Institute	45	$70,107
7	Brigham And Womens Hospital	26	$68,834
8	Albert Einstein College Of Medicine	20	$67,018
9	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	15	$63,890
10	Memorial Sloankettering Cancer Center	11	$129,205
11	Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center	10	$67,868
12	University Of Texas At Austin	9	$65,997

13	Massachusetts Eye And Ear Infirmary	8	$65,892
14	Trustees Of Boston University	5	$68,969
15	Danar-Farber Cancer Institute	4	$71,750
16	Joslin Diabetes Center	4	$68,764
17	The Mclean Hospital	4	$65,785
18	Wake Forest University Health Sciences	4	$55,159
19	The Clay Mathematics Institute	2	$79,793
20	New York Blood Center	2	$78,207
21	The Lundquist Institute	2	$71,357
22	University Hospitals Health System	2	$68,620
23	Vanderbilt University Of Medical Center	2	$61,185
24	Machine Intelligence Research Institute	1	$200,000
25	Open Philanthropy Project	1	$176,384
26	Vanderbilt University	1	$100,000
27	Children's Hospital Pediatric Associates	1	$69,999
28	Rethink Learning	1	$65,000
29	California State University, San Bernardino	1	$62,016
30	National Jewish Health	1	$61,572
31	Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center	1	$61,383
32	University Of Maryland, Baltimore County	1	$59,000
33	University Of Michigan	1	$53,000

The above report lists the top 1 - 50 H1B Visa sponsors(research-fellow) in fiscal year 2024). For Example, the first record on this report means that National Institutes Of Health/Hhs filed 164 Labor Condition Applications(LCA) for H1B Visa in fiscal year 2024. The average salary of those job offerss is $96,732. The number and average salary are not for all H1B Visa jobs filed by National Institutes Of Health/Hhs in fiscal year 2024. They are for research-fellow jobs only.

The visa sponsors(employers) are sorted by the number of Labor Condition Application(LCA) submitted. The number includes new, renew and transfer of LCA.

If two employers have filed same number of visa petitions in the same year and same category, they are further sorted by the average salary in descending order.

The salary is the average salary of all proffered salary on LCA or Form 9035. Sometimes the visa sponsors(employers) does not enter a specific salary, but a salary range. Our algorithm uses the middle point of the range to calculate the average salary.

*: The number of LCA includes renewed, transferred and cap-exempt LCA. Department of Labor(DOL) typically certifies more than 3 times the number of foreign work requests than the number of H-1B visas issued by USCIS.

A new LCA is needed if the foreigner worker changes his or her work location(even within the same state and same company), because the prevailing wage of the position depends on geographic location. However, if the new location is within the same Metropolitan Statistical Area or normal commuting distance, no new LCA is needed.